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8 INFRASTRUCTURE AUSTRALIA APRIL 2012
Government
Focus on asset management
T
he ICOMS Asset Management
Conference, one of the leading
events in Australia for asset
management and maintenance,
will be held on 4-8 June in Hobart.
The conference will present research
and case studies by key industry leaders
in water, infrastructure, people, energy,
mining, forestry, power, energy and aqua-
culture.
The following speakers have been
confirmed:
• Katherine Richards, commanding of-
ficer at HMAS Cerberus – “Establishing
an asset management culture – a naval
perspective”
• Danny Elia, director of global asset
management with Industry Funds
Management – “Asset management
information for boards”
• Nicholas Yates, chief executive in-
frastructure Australia New Zealand,
Transfield Services – “Development
and deployment of asset management
capability throughout an infrastructure
services business”
• Achim Krueger, vice-president EAM
Solutions, SAP, Sweden – “How to
set up and extract data from an asset
management system”
• Andrew Bambridge, transmission
manager, Tasmanian Gas Networks
–
“ The challenges of managing the
tasmanian gas pipeline”.
Several other speakers will present a
range of “Case studies on implementing
cultural change”.
The conference will also feature a
comprehensive asset management and
maintenance focused exhibition.
The event is organised by the Asset
Management Council, a Technical Society
of Engineers Australia.
For updates and further information
go to www.amcouncil.com.au/icoms. The
contact email is training@amcouncil.com.
au and the contact phone number is 03
9819 2515.
Conference
Advisory body encourages debate
T
he government’s Infrastruc-
ture Australia advisory body
has commenced a series of
conferences looking at the in-
frastructure challenges for Australia, and
encouraging communities to debate the
path forward.
Infrastructure Australia has already
held five such events and more are planned
to be rolled out throughout the year.
Last month in Newcastle, a number
of national and international guests gave
presentations at a three-day event on the
topic of “Ports and cities: Partnerships that
work”. The presentations can be down-
loaded at http://goo.gl/sG2vW.
In February, “Connecting the dots – a
conference shaping the future of infra-
structure in remote indigenous communi-
ties” looked at the local service provision
of water and wastewater, power and
renewable energy, roads and transport,
and telecommunications required for
indigenous communities. Video presenta-
tions from the conference can be viewed
at http://goo.gl/0NtIu.
The next conference in the series is
titled: “Do Australians in regional areas
deserve quality drinking water?” It will
be held in Sydney on 18 April.
The conference is designed to address
differences between Infrastructure Aus-
tralia and local government representa-
tives, following an Infrastructure Australia
report in 2010 which suggested that gov-
ernance and institutional structures, par-
ticularly in NSW and Queensland, were
a major factor preventing the sustainable
management of many small towns’ drink-
ing water supplies.
The conference aims to “move the de-
bate on regional towns’ water quality, par-
ticularly in NSW and Queensland, from a
position of almost diametrically-opposed
views to one of shared understanding and
openness, in exploring solutions to the
most significant problems”.
The conference will bring together
members of the water industry, academics
and representatives from local, state and
federal government.
Other events scheduled include “Roads
–
User pays” to be held in Brisbane on
16 May, and “Road safety and national
productivity” to be held in Melbourne
on 14 June.
For more information go to http://
www.infrastructureaustralia.gov.au/con-
ference_series/.
National construction schedule
T
he federal Department of
Infrastructure and Transport
is working on the National
Infrastructure Construction
Schedule (NICS) website, planned to
become operational by May.
NICS aims to provide a national
overview of planned and tendered in-
frastructure projects with capital value
of $50 million or more that have federal,
state or local government funding.
“This major initiative will comple-
ment Infrastructure Australia’s high
level National Priority List, by provid-
ing a deeper pipeline of construction
projects. A key aim of the NICS is to
attract greater competition into the
infrastructure market,” the department
said in its submission to the current
Senate inquiry into the shortage of engi-
neering and related employment skills.
“In addition, by providing a deeper
pipeline of construction projects, the
firm ‘deal flow’ that construction com-
panies have long sought will now be
self-evident. This in turn provides all
constructors with greater confidence to
both plan and ‘skill up’ their workforces
to contribute in delivering Australia’s
future infrastructure requirements.”
Engineers Australia said it supports
NICS in principle “as a first step toward
effective infrastructure planning and
delivery.”
NICS was first announced in the
2011/2012 federal budget.
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